Malcolm Carnegie McKenna

Malcolm Carnegie McKenna (1930–2008), U.S. paleomammalogist.

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Malcolm Carnegie McKenna

Taxon names authored

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• 9 taxon names authored by Malcolm Carnegie McKenna

Publications

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1950s

• McKenna, M.C. 1954a. Gray Bull Mammals from the Knight Formation in Moffat County, Colorado. Journal of Mammalogy, 35(4): 581. doi:10.2307/1375587. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1954b. Earliest Wasatchian vertebrates from the Hiawatha Member of the Knight Formation, Moffat County, Colorado. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 65(12, pt. 2): 1283. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1955a. Paleocene mammal, Goler Formation, Mojave Desert, California. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 39(4): 512–515. doi:10.1306/5ceae16c-16bb-11d7-8645000102c1865d. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1955b. A new species of mylagaulid from the Chalk Cliffs local fauna, Montana. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 45(4): 107–110. 
• McKenna, M.C. (1955c). "Age of the Four Mile local fauna, northeast Sand Wash Basin, Colorado". Wyoming Geological Association, Guidebook, tenth annual field conference, Green River Basin. Casper: Wyoming Geological Association. pp. 105–107.
• McKenna, M.C. (1955d). "Earliest Eocene vertebrates from the Sand Wash Basin, north-west Colorado". In Ritzma, Howard R.; Oriel, Steven S. (eds.). Guidebook to the geology of northwest Colorado. Salt Lake City: Intermountain Association of Petroleum Geologists and Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists. pp. 41–42.
• McKenna, M.C. 1956. Survival of primitive notoungulates and condylarths into the Miocene of Colombia. American Journal of Science, 254: 736–743. doi:10.2475/ajs.254.12.736. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1958. Summary of the dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy: Fossil Mammalia from the early Wasatchian Four Mile fauna, Eocene of northwest Colorado. University of California Publ. Geol. Graduate Div., Northern Sect.: 4. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1959. Tapochoerus, a Uintan dichobunid artiodactyl from the Sespe Formation of California. Bulletin, Southern California Academy of Sciences, 58(3): 125–132. 
• McKenna, M.C.; Simpson, G.G. 1959. A new insectivore from the middle Eocene of Tabernacle Butte, Wyoming. American Museum Novitates, 1952: 1–12. 

1960s

• Clemens, William; McKenna, Malcolm C.; Russell, Donald E.; Sloan, Robert E.; Van Valen, Leigh November 1964. Cimolestidae Marsh, 1889 (Mammalia): proposed suppression under the plenary powers. Z.N.(S.) 1630. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 21(5): 363–365. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.28517. https://archive.org/stream/bulletinofzoolog21inte#page/362/mode/2up. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1960a. Fossil Mammalia from the early Wasatchian Four Mile fauna, Eocene of northwest Colorado. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, 37(1): 1–130. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1960b. The Geolabidinae, a new subfamily of early Cenozoic erinaceoid insectivores. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences, 37(2): 131–164. 
• McKenna, M.C. (1960c). "Condylarthra". McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology. Vol. 3. New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 394.
• McKenna, M.C. (1960d). "Dermoptera fossils". McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology. Vol. 4. New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 68–69.
• McKenna, M.C. (1960e). "Dinocerata". McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology. Vol. 4. New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 196–197.
• McKenna, M.C. (1960f). "Insectivora fossils". McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology. Vol. 7. New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 143–144.
• McKenna, M.C. (1960g). "Pantodonta". McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology. Vol. 9. New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 536–537.
• McKenna, M.C. 1960h. A continental Paleocene vertebrate fauna from California. American Museum Novitates, 2024: 1–20. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1960i. The shoulder girdle of the mammalian subclass Allotheria. Anatomical Record, 138(3): 367. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1961a. A note on the origin of rodents. American Museum Novitates, 2037: 1–5. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1961b. On the shoulder girdle of the mammalian subclass Allotheria. American Museum Novitates, 2066: 1–27. 
• McKenna, M.C. (1961c). "Foreword". In Austin, M. (ed.). The Land of Little Rain. Garden City: Doubleday.
• McKenna, M.C. 1962a. Collecting small fossils by washing and screening. Curator, 5(3): 221–235. doi:10.1111/j.2151-6952.1962.tb01586.x. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1962b. Eupetaurus and the living petauristine sciurids. American Museum Novitates, 2104: 1–38. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1962c. Studies of the natural history of the Mongolian People’s Republic and adjacent areas, made by the American Museum of Natural History. Mongolia Society Newsletter, 1(3): 31–35. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1962d. Papers mainly on Mongolian natural history published by the American Museum of Natural History. Mongolia Society Newsletter, 1(3): 36–45. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1963a. (Review of) R. Moore, Evolution. Natural History, 72(5): 9. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1963b. The early Tertiary primates and their ancestors. Proceedings of the XVI International Congress of Zoology, Washington, DC, 4: 69–74. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1963c. New evidence against tupaioid affinities of the mammalian family Anagalidae. American Museum Novitates, 2158: 1–16. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1963d. Primitive Paleocene and Eocene Apatemyidae (Mammalia, Insectivora) and the primate-insectivore boundary. American Museum Novitates, 2160: 1–39. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1964a. Mining for fossils in Wyoming. Nature and Science, 1(16): 10–11. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1964b. The undersea history of America. Saturday Review, 48(23): 54–57. 
• McKenna, M.C. (1964c). "Zeuglodon". Encyclopedia Americana.
• McKenna, M.C. 1965a. (Review of) C.C. Black, A review of the North American Tertiary Sciuridae. Quarterly Review of Biology, 40(2): 191–192. doi:10.1086/404565. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1965b. Geologic map. H.J. Cook, Runningwater Formation, middle Miocene of Nebraska. American Museum Novitates, 2227: 3. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1965c. Stratigraphic nomenclature of the Miocene Hemingford Group, Nebraska. American Museum Novitates, 2228: 1–21. 
• McKenna, M.C. (1965d). "Collecting microvertebrate fossils by washing and screening.". In Kummel, B.; Raup, D. (eds.). Handbook of paleontological techniques. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman and Co. pp. 193–203. (Abridgment of McKenna, 1962a)
• McKenna, M.C. 1966a. Paleontology and the origin of the Primates. Folia Primatologica, 4(1): 1–25. doi:10.1159/000155041. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1966b. Synopsis of Whitneyan and Arikareean camelid phylogeny. American Museum Novitates, 2253: 1–11. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1966c. Speculations on endemism in terrestrial West Coast Paleogene mammals. Special Paper (Geological Society of America, Abstracts for 1965), 87: 314–315. 
• McKenna, M.C. (1966d). "Pantodonta". McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology. Vol. 9. New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 536–537. (Revision of McKenna, 1960g)
• McKenna, M.C. 1967. Classification, range, and deployment of the prosimian Primates.. Colloques Internationaux du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 163, Problemes Actuels de Paleontologie (Evolution des Vertebres), Paris, 6–11 Juin 1966: 603–610. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1968a. Leptacodon, an American Paleocene nyctithere (Mammalia, Insectivora). American Museum Novitates, 2317: 1–12. 
• McKenna, M.C. (1968b). "Preliminary announcement of Arikareean mammals from high-level Tertiary sediments, Bighorn Mountains". Field conference guidebook for the high altitude and mountain basin deposits of Miocene age in Wyoming and Colorado, August 16–25, 1968, 6 pp. Boulder: University of Colorado Museum.
• McKenna, M.C. 1968c. Origin and adaptive radiation of therian mammals. Preprinted abstracts of conference on comparative and evolutionary aspects of the vertebrate central nervous system, New York Academy of Sciences, December 2–4, 1968. New York. , session 4, paper 2: 9–10
• McKenna, M.C. 1969a. (Review of) E.T. Drake (editor), Evolution and environment: a symposium presented on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of the foundation of Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1966. Science, 163: 662–663. doi:10.1126/science.163.3868.662. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1969b. The origin and early differentiation of therian mammals. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 167(1)): 217–240. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1969.tb20446.x. 
• McKenna, M.C.; Holton, C.P. 1967. A new insectivore from the Oligocene of Mongolia and a new subfamily of hedgehogs. American Museum Novitates, 2311: 1–11. 
• McKenna, M.C.; Robinson, P.; Taylor, D.W. 1962. Noteson Eocene Mammalia and Mollusca from Tabernacle Butte, Wyoming. American Museum Novitates, 2102: 1–33. 
• McKenna, M.C.; Russell, D.E.; Savage, D.E. 1969. Protomomys Teilhard de Chardin, 1927 (Mammalia): proposed suppression under the plenary powers. Z.N.(S.) 1847. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 25(4/5): 165. 
• McKenna, M.C.; Stirton, R.A. (1960). "Primates (fossil)". McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology. Vol. 10. New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 589–590.
• Russell, D.E.; McKenna, M.C. 1961a. Etude de Paroxyclaenus, Mammifere des phosphorites du Quercy. Compte Rendu Sommaire des Séances de la Société Géologique de France, 5: 131. 
• Russell, D.E.; McKenna, M.C. 1961b. Etude de Paroxyclaenus, Mammifere des phosphorites du Quercy. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3: 274–288. 
• Stucker, G.F.; Galusha, M.J.; McKenna, M.C. (1965). "Removing matrix from fossils by miniature sandblasting". In Kummel, B.; Raup, D. (eds.). Handbook of paleontological techniques. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman. pp. 273–275.
• Van Valen, L.; Butler, P.M.; McKenna, M.C.; Szalay, F.S.; Patterson, B.; Romer, A.S. 1967. Galeopithecus Pallas, 1783 (Mammalia): proposed validation under plenary powers. Z.N.(S.) 1792. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 24(3): 190–191. 

1970s

• Berggren, W.A.; McKenna, M.C.; Hardenbol, J.; Obradovich, J.D. 1978. Revised Paleogene polarity time scale. The Journal of Geology, 86(1): 67–81. doi:10.1086/649656. 
• Black, C.C.; Gregory, J.T.; Hutchison, J.H. et al. 1973. Data conventions for specimen record files. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology News Bulletin, 97: 61–69. 
• Clemens, W.A.; McKenna, M.C. (1971). "Triconodonta". McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology. Vol. 14 (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 97–98.
• Dashzeveg, D.; McKenna, M.C. 1975. Tarsioid primate from the latest Paleocene of Asia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 42(2): 297. doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330420219. 
• Dashzeveg, D.; McKenna, M.C. 1977. Tarsioid primate from the early Tertiary of the Mongolian People’s Republic. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 22(2): 119–137. https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app22/app22-119.pdf. 
• Davis, D.D.; McKenna, M.C. (1971). "Insectivora". McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology. Vol. 7 (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 164–165.
• Gaffney, E.A.; McKenna, M.C. 1979. A Late Permian captorhinid from Rhodesia. American Museum Novitates, 2688: 1–15. http://hdl.handle.net/2246/5329. 
• Love, J.D.; McKenna, M.C.; Dawson, M.R. 1976. Eocene, Oligocene, and Miocene rocks and vertebrate fossils at the Emerald Lake locality, 3 miles south of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 932-A(i–iv): 1–28. https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp932A. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1971a. A route to late Cenozoic temperature history?. Science, 172: 503. doi:10.1126/science.172.3982.503. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1971b. Fossil mammals and the Eocene demise of the De Geer North Atlantic dispersal route. Abstracts with Programs (Geological Society of America), 3(7): 644. 
• McKenna, M.C. (1971c). "Condylarthra". McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology. Vol. 3 (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 427–428.
• McKenna, M.C. (1971d). "Dermoptera". McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology. Vol. 4 (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 84–85.
• McKenna, M.C. (1971e). "Dinocerata". McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology. Vol. 4 (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 217–218.
• McKenna, M.C. (1971f). "Docodonta". McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology. Vol. 4 (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 289.
• McKenna, M.C. (1971g). "Embrithopoda". McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology. Vol. 4 (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 644.
• McKenna, M.C. (1971h). "Macroscelidea". McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology. Vol. 8 (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 14.
• McKenna, M.C. (1971i). "Multituberculate". McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology. Vol. 8 (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 736–737.
• McKenna, M.C. (1971j). "Pantodonta". McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology. Vol. 9 (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 606.
• McKenna, M.C. (1971k). "Pantotheria". McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology. Vol. 9 (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 607.
• McKenna, M.C. (1971l). "Symmetrodonta". McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology. Vol. 13 (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. pp. 378–379.
• McKenna, M.C. 1972a. (Review of) A.A. Dahlberg (editor), Dental morphology and evolution: a symposium, Englefield Green, England, September 1968. Science, 176: 1115–1116. doi:10.1126/science.176.4039.1115. 
• McKenna, M.C. (1972b). "Vertebrate paleontology of the Togwotee Pass area, north-western Wyoming". In West, R.M. (ed.). Guidebook, Field conference on Tertiary biostratigraphy of southern and western Wyoming, August 5–10, 1972. pp. 80–101.
• McKenna, M.C. 1972c. Eocene final separation of the Eurasian and Greenland-North American landmasses, International Geological Congress, 24th Session, Montreal, Canada, sect. 7. Palaeontology: 275–281. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1972d. Possible biological consequences of plate tectonics. BioScience, 22(9): 519–525. doi:10.2307/1296311. 
• McKenna, M.C. (1972e). Dobzhansky, T.; Hecht, M.K.; Steere, W.C. (eds.). . Was Europe connected directly to North America prior to the middle Eocene?. Evolutionary biology. Vol. 6. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. pp. 179–189. doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-9063-3_7.
• McKenna, M.C. (1973a). "Sweepstakes, filters, corridors, Noah's arks, and beached Viking funeral ships in palaeogeography". In Tarling, D.H.; Runcorn, S.K. (eds.). Implications of continental drift to the earth sciences. Proceedings, NATO Advanced Study Institute, April 1972, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Vol. 1. London: Academic Press. pp. 295–308.
• McKenna, M.C. (1973b). "Comment on: L.A. Frakes and E.M. Kemp, Palaeogene continental positions and evolution of climate.". In Tarling, D.H.; Runcorn, S.K. (eds.). Implications of continental drift to the earth sciences. NATO Advanced Study Institute, April 1972, The University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Vol. Vol. 1. Academic Press. p. 559. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
• McKenna, M.C. 1973c. (Review of) E.L. Simons, Primate evolution: an introduction to man’s place in nature. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 39(3): 494–496. doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330390325. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1973d. Sbor ostatkov melkikh pozvonochnykh posredstvom otmyvki i proseivaniya. In Kummel, B.; Raup, D.. Methodika paleontologicheskikh issledovanii. Moscow Izdatel’stvo "MIP". pp. 170–178.  (Russian translation of McKenna, 1965f)
• McKenna, M.C. 1975a. Fossil mammals and early Eocene North Atlantic land continuity. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 62(2): 335–353. doi:10.2307/2395200. 
• McKenna, M.C. (1975b). "Toward a phylogenetic classification of the Mammalia". In Luckett, W.P.; Szalay, F.S. (eds.). Phylogeny of the primates: a multidisciplinary approach (Proceedings of WennerGren Symposium no. 61, Burg Wartenstein, Austria, July 6–14, 1974. New York: Plenum. pp. 21–46. doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-2166-8_2. ISBN 978-1-4684-2168-2.
• McKenna, M.C. 1975. Toward a phylogenetic classification of the Mammalia. pp. 21–46. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-2166-8_2 In: Luckett, W.P. & Szalay, F.S. (eds.) Phylogeny of the primates: a multidisciplinary approach. New York: Plenum. ISBN 978-0-3063-0852-9 Reference page. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1976a. Esthonyx in the upper faunal assemblage, Huerfano Formation, Eocene of Colorado. Journal of Paleontology, 50(2): 354–355. 
• McKenna, M.C. (1976b). "Comments on Radinsky's "Later mammal radiations". In Masterton, R.B.; Bitterman, M.E.; Campbell, C.B.G.; et al. (eds.). Evolution of brain and behavior in vertebrates. Vol. 1. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc. pp. 245–250.
• McKenna, M.C. 1977. Vertebrate fossils and the Antiquities Act of 1906. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology News Bulletin, 110: 40–41. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1978. Crepuscular Arctic Eocene mammals. Abstracts with Programs. Geological Society of America, 10(7): 453. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1979. Molecular mammalogy. (Review of) M. Goodman and R.E. Tashian (editors), Molecular anthropology: genes and proteins in the evolutionary ascent of the Primates; and A.E. RomeroHerrera, H. Lehmann, K.A. Joysey, and A.E. Friday: On the evolution of myoglobin. Systematic Zoology, 28(1): 109–113. doi:10.2307/2413008. 
• McKenna, M.C.; Engelmann, G.F.; Barghoorn, S.F. 1977. (Review of) P.D. Gingerich, Cranial anatomy and evolution of early Tertiary Plesiadapidae (Mammalia, Primates). Systematic Zoology, 26(2): 233–238. doi:10.2307/2412851. 
• McKenna, M.C.; Love, J.D. 1970. Local stratigraphic and tectonic significance of Leptoceratops, a Cretaceous dinosaur in the Pinyon Conglomerate, northwestern Wyoming. U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper, 700-D: D55–D61. 
• McKenna, M.C.; Love, J.D. 1972. High-level strata containing early Miocene mammals on the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming. American Museum Novitates, 2490: 1–31. 
• McKenna, M.C.; Manning, E. 1977. Affinities and palaeobiogeographic significance of the Mongolian Paleogene genus Phenacolophus. Geobios, Memoire special, 1: 61–85. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(77)80008-9. OCLC 4656767437. 
• McKenna, M.C.; Mellett, J.S.; Szalay, F.S. 1971. Relationships of the Cretaceous mammal Deltatheridium. Journal of Paleontology, 45(3): 441–442. 
• McKenna, M.C.; Russell, D.E.; West, R.M.; Black, C.C.; Turnbull, W.D.; Dawson, M.R.; Lillegraven, J.A. 1973. K/Ar recalibration of Eocene North American Land-Mammal "Ages" and European ages. Abstracts with Programs (Geological Society of America), 5(7): 733. 
• McKenna, M.C.; Stirton, R.A. (1971). "Primates (Fossils)". McGraw-Hill encyclopedia of science and technology. Vol. 10 (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill. p. 679.
• Nicholson, T.D.; Schaeffer, B.; Galusha, T.; McKenna, M.C.; Skinner, M.F.; Taylor, B.E.; Tedford, R.H. 1975. The fossil mammal collections of the American Museum of Natural History. Curator, 18(1): 16–38. doi:10.1111/j.2151-6952.1975.tb00464.x. 
• Savage, D.E.; McKenna, M.C. 1974. Symposium: vertebrate paleontology as a discipline in geochronology: I, II, III. Geology, 2(2): 83–84. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1974)2<83:SVPAAD>2.0.CO;2. 
• Stucker, G.F.; Galusha, M.J.; McKenna, M.C. (1973). "Preparirovanie malkikh okamenelostej pri pomoshchi miniatyurnogo vozdushno-abrazivnogo apparata". In Kummel, B.; Raup, D. (eds.). Methodika paleontologicheskikh issledovanii. Moscow: Izdatel’stvo "MIP". pp. 241–242. [Russian translation of Stucker, Galusha, and McKenna, 1965]
• Szalay, F.S.; McKenna, M.C. 1971. Beginning of the age of mammals in Asia: the late Paleocene Gashato fauna, Mongolia. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 144(4): 269–317. 

1980s

• Atz, J.W.; Cole, C.J.; Eldredge, W.D. et al. 1981. Majority verdict. Nature, 290: 730. doi:10.1038/290730a0. 
• Bleefeld, A.R.; McKenna, M.C. 1985. Skeletal integrity of Mimolagus rodens (Lagomorpha, Mammalia). American Museum Novitates, 2806: 1–5. http://hdl.handle.net/2246/5282. 
• Cifelli, R.L.; Schaff, C.R.; McKenna, M.C. 1989. The relationships of the Arctostylopidae (Mammalia): new data and interpretation. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 152(1): 1–44. https://ia600204.us.archive.org/10/items/biostor-623/biostor-623.pdf. 
• Committee Advisory to the U.S. Geological Survey (1987). Geologic mapping in the U.S. Geological Survey. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
• Dene, H.; Goodman, M.; McKenna, M.C.; Romero-Herrera, A.E. 1982. Ochotona princeps (pika) myoglobin: an appraisal of lagomorph phylogeny. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 79: 1917–1920. doi:10.1073/pnas.79.6.1917. 
• Domning, D.P.; Ray, C.E.; McKenna, M.C. 1986. Two new Oligocene desmostylians and a discussion of tethytherian systematics. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology, 59(i–iii): 1–56. doi:10.5479/si.00810266.59.1. 
• Flynn, J.J.; MacFadden, B.J.; McKenna, M.C. 1984. Land-mammal ages, faunal heterochrony, and temporal resolution in Cenozoic terrestrial sequences. Journal of Geology, 92(6): 687–705. doi:10.1086/628906. 
• Gingerich, P.D.; McKenna, M.C. 1980. Mammalian paleontology in China. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology News Bulletin, 118: 42–44. 
• Gutmann, J.T.; Pushkar, P.D.; McKenna, M.C. December 1989. Late Cretaceous and Tertiary history and the dynamic crushing of cobbles, Black Butte area, southwestern Montana. Engineering Geology, 27(1–4): 413–431. doi:10.1016/0013-7952(89)90039-2. 
• Jenkins, Jr., F.A.; Simons, E.L.; McKenna, M.C.; Gingerich, P.D. 1985. Princeton’s intellectual trust. Science, 229: 330. doi:10.1126/science.229.4711.330-a. PMID 17795882. 

• Kent, D.V.; McKenna, M.C.; Opdyke, N.D.; Flynn, J.J.; MacFadden, B.J. 1984. Arctic biostratigraphic heterochroneity. Science, 224: 173–174. doi:10.1126/science.224.4645.173. 
• Krishtalka, L.; West, R.M.; Black, C.C.; et al. (1987). "Eocene (Wasatchian through Duchesnean) biochronology of North America". In Woodburne, M.O. (ed.). Cenozoic mammals of North America. Berkeley: University California Press. pp. 77–117.
• Lampietti, P.K.; Marcus, L.F.; Bell, S.K.; McKeena, M.C. 1984. A data base management system for mammal classification. Abstracts, American Society of Mammalogists, 64th Annual Meeting, 24–28 June 1984 (Arcata, California: Humboldt State University): 66. https://books.google.com/books?id=X2M5nwEACAAJ&pg=PA66. 
• Lillegraven, J.A.; McKenna, M.C. 1986. Fossil mammals from the "Mesaverde" Formation (Late Cretaceous, Judithian) of the Bighorn and Wind River Basins, Wyoming, with definitions of Late Cretaceous North American Land-Mammal "Ages". American Museum Novitates, 2840: 1–68. http://hdl.handle.net/2246/3575. 
• Lillegraven, J.A.; McKenna, M.C.; Krishtalka, L. 1981. Evolutionary relationships of middle Eocene and younger species of Centetodon (Mammalia, Insectivora, Geolabididae) with a description of the dentition of Ankylodon (Adapisoricidae). University of Wyoming Publications, 45(i–vii): 1–115. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1980a. Notesfrom a Patagonian journal. Rotunda (Royal Ontario Museum), 4(3): 5. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1980b. Getting going again in 1947. Alf Museum Journal, 1(2): 1–2. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1980c. Mammals in the age of dinosaurs. (Review of) J.A. Lillegraven,Z. Kielan-Jaworowska, and W.A. Clemens(editors), Mesozoic mammals. Science, 208: 718–719. doi:10.1126/science.208.4445.718. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1980d. Eocene paleolatitude, climate, and mammals of Ellesmere Island. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 30(3): 349–362. doi:10.1016/0031-0182(80)90065-6. 
• McKenna, M.C. (1980e). "Remaining evidence of Oligocene rocks previously present across the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming". In Gingerich, P.D. (ed.). Early Cenozoic paleontology and stratigraphy of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Papers on Paleontology. Vol. 24. pp. 143–146.
• McKenna, M.C. (1980f). "Late Cretaceous and early Tertiary vertebrate paleontological reconnaissance, Togwotee Pass area, northwestern Wyoming". In Jacobs, L.L. (ed.). Aspects of vertebrate history: essays in honor of Edwin Harris Colbert. Flagstaff: Museum of Northern Arizona Press. pp. 321–343.
• McKenna, M.C. (1980g). "Early history and biogeography of South America's extinct land mammals". In Ciochon, R.L.; Chiarelli, A.B. (eds.). Evolutionary biology of the New World monkeys and continental drift. New York: Plenum. pp. 43–77.
• McKenna, M.C. 1981a. More museums. Nature, 289: 626–627. doi:10.1038/289626c0. 
• McKenna, M.C. (1981b). "Discussion [of: A. Hallam, Relative importance of plate movements, eustasy, and climate in controlling major biogeographic changes since the early Mesozoic]". In Nelson, G.; Rosen, D.E. (eds.). Vicariance biogeography, a critique. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 335–338.
• McKenna, M.C. 1981c. Cenozoic terrestrial sediments and their vertebrate fossils in and around the North Atlantic. NATO Advanced Research Institute, Programme and Abstracts, Structure and development of the Greenland-Scotland Ridge—new methods and concepts, Bressanone, Italy, 11–15 May 1981. pp. 23–24. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1981d. Live issues: the classification of North American mammals. (Review of) E.R. Hall, The mammals of North America, 2nd ed., vols. 1–2. Nature, 294: 597. doi:10.1038/294597a0. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1981e. (Review of) W.P. Luckett (editor), Comparative biology and evolutionary relationships of tree shrews. International Journal of Primatology, 2(1): 97–101. doi:10.1007/bf02692304. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1982a. Chinese puzzles. Nature, 300: 212. doi:10.1038/300212b0. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1982b. More of dinosaur extinction, and more. (Review of) L.B. Halstead, Hunting the past: fossils, rocks, tracks and trails—the search for the origin of life. Nature, 300: 560. doi:10.1038/300560a0. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1982c. Lagomorph interrelationships. Geobios, Memoire special, 6: 213–223. 
• McKenna, M.C. (1983a). "Cenozoic paleogeography of North Atlantic land bridges". In Bott, M.H.P.; Saxov, S.; Talwani, M.; et al. (eds.). Structure and development of the Greenland-Scotland Ridge. New York: Plenum. pp. 351–399.
• McKenna, M.C. 1983b. Fossil mammals. (Review of) D.E. Savage and D.E. Russell, Mammalian paleofaunas of the world. Science, 221: 1282. doi:10.1126/science.221.4617.1282. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1984a. Holarctic landmass rearrangement, cosmic events, and Cenozoic terrestrial organisms. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 70(3): 459–489. doi:10.2307/2992083. 
• McKenna, M.C. (1984b). "Sweepstakes, filters, corridors, Noah's arks, and beached Viking funeral ships in palaeogeography". In Schoch, R.M. (ed.). Vertebrate paleontology. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. pp. 113–126. (Facsimile reprint of McKenna, 1973a)
• McKenna, M.C. 1984c. Order in mammals. (Review of) S. Anderson and J.K. Jones, Jr. (editors), Orders and families of Recent mammals of the world. Nature, 312: 675. doi:10.1038/312675b0. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1985. The great American terrestrial interchange and reorganized oceanic circulation in the latest Tertiary. South African Journal of Science, 81(5): 258. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1986a. Glirology. (Review of) W.P. Luckett and J.-L. Hartenberger (editors), Evolutionary relationships among rodents: a multidisciplinary analysis. Science, 231: 166–167. doi:10.1126/science.231.4734.166. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1986b. (Review of) F.G. Stehli and S.D. Webb (editors), The great American biotic interchange. American Scientist, 74: 315. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1986c. Edentates. (Review of) G.G. Montgomery (editor), The evolution and ecology of armadillos, sloths, and vermilinguas. Science, 233: 1102–1103. doi:10.1126/science.233.4768.1102. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1986d. Mammalian phylogeny. Abstracts,. Twentieth International Numerical Taxonomy Conference, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 24–26 October 1986, 1 page. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1986e. Putting flesh onto the bones. (Review of) R.J.G. Savage and M.R. Long, Mammal evolution: an illustrated guide. Nature, 324: 186. doi:10.1038/324186a0. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1987a. A new lineage of primate-like mammals from the Eocene of Wyoming. Abstracts with Programs (Geological Society of America), 19(5): 320–321. 
• McKenna, M.C. (1987b). "Molecular and morphological analysis of high-level mammalian interrelationships". In Patterson, C. (ed.). Molecules and morphology in evolution: conflict or compromise?. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 55–93.
• McKenna, M.C. 1988a. The vertebrates updated. (Review of) R.L. Carroll, Vertebrate paleontology and evolution. Science, 239: 512–513. doi:10.1126/science.239.4839.512. 
• McKenna, M.C. 6 February 1988. Stones, bones, names [letter to the editor]. The New York Times. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1989. Marsupials right side up. (Review of) M. Archer (editor), Possums and opossums: studies in evolution. Science, 244: 1096–1097. doi:10.1126/science.244.4908.1096. 
• McKenna, M.C.; Chow, M.; Ting, S.; Luo, Z. (1989). "Radinskya yupingae, a perissodactyl-like mammal from the late Paleocene of China". In Prothero, D.R.; Schoch, R.M. (eds.). The evolution of perissodactyls. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 24–36. ISBN 9780195060393. OCLC 19268080.
• McKenna, M.C.; Flynn, J.J. (1989). "Kemmerer, Wyoming to Thermopolis, Wyoming". In Flynn, J.J. (ed.). Mesozoic/Cenozoic vertebrate paleontology: classic localities, contemporary approaches (28th International Geological Congress Field Trip Guidebook T322). Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union. pp. 29–33.
• McKenna, M.C.; Hopson, J.A.; Schultze, H.-P. 1981. Vertebrate paleontology. Geotimes, 26(2): 56–57. 
• McKenna, M.C.; Hutchison, J.H.; Hartman, J.H. (1987). "Paleocene vertebrates and nonmarine Mollusca from the Goler Formation, California". In Cox, B.F. (ed.). Basin analysis and paleontology of the Paleocene and Eocene Goler Formation, El Paso Mountains, California. Los Angeles: Pacific Section, Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists. pp. 31–41.
• McKenna, M.C.; Schultze, H.-P. 1982. Vertebrate paleontology. Geotimes, 27(2): 56–57. 
• McKenna, M.C.; Xue, X.; Zhou, M. 1984. Prosarcodon lonanensis, a new Paleocene micropternodontid palaeoryctoid insectivore from Asia. American Museum Novitates, 2780: 1–17. 
• Novacek, M.J.; McKenna, M.C.; Neff, N.A.; Cifelli, R.L. 1983. Evidence from earliest known erinaceomorph basicranium that insectivorans and primates are not closely related. Nature, 306: 683–684. doi:10.1038/306683a0. 
• Novacek, M.J.; Wyss, A.R.; McKenna, M.C. (1987). The major groups of eutherian mammals. Programme, International Symposium, The Phylogeny and Classification of the Tetrapods, 2 pp. London: The Linnean Society.
• Novacek, M.J.; Wyss, A.R.; McKenna, M.C. (1988). "The major groups of eutherian mammals". In Benton, M.J. (ed.). The phylogeny and classification of the tetrapods. Mammals (Systematics Association Special Volume 35B. Vol. 2. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 31–71.
• Schaeffer, B.; McKenna, M.C. 1985. George Gaylord Simpson 1902–1984. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology News Bulletin, 133: 62–63. 
• Wyss, A.R.; Novacek, M.J.; McKenna, M.C. 1987. Amino acid sequence versus morphological data and the interordinal relationships of mammals. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 4(2): 99–116. PMID 3447009. 

1990s

• Asher, R.J.; McKenna, M.C. 1997. Relevance of Tertiary North American insectivorans to Caribbean biogeography. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17(3, suppl.): 30A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1997.10011028. 
• Bryant, J.D.; McKenna, M.C. 1995. Cranial anatomy and phylogenetic position of Tsaganomys altaicus (Mammalia: Rodentia) from the Hsanda Gol Formation (Oligocene), Mongolia. American Museum Novitates, 3156: 1–42. http://hdl.handle.net/2246/3675. 
• Bryant, J.D.; McKenna, M.C.; Froelich, P.N.; Luz, B. 1992. Oxygen isotopic composition of fossil horse enamel phosphate as a continental paleoclimate indicator. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 12(3suppl.): 20A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1992.10011483. 
• Charrier, R.; Wyss, A.R.; Flynn, J.J. et al. 1996. New evidence for late Mesozoic–early Cenozoic evolution of the Chilean Andes in the upper Tinguiririca Valley (35ЊS), central Chile. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 9(5/6): 393–422. doi:10.1016/S0895-9811(96)00035-1. 
• Charrier, R.; Wyss, A.R.; Norell, M.A.; et al. Hallazgo de mamiferos fosiles del Terciario inferior en el sector de Termas del Flaco, Cordillera Principal, Chile Central: implicaciones paleontologicas, estratigraficas y tectonicas. Segundo Simposio sobre el Terciario de Chile, Concepcion, Deciembre 1990. pp. 73–84.
• Dashzeveg, D.; McKenna, M.C. 1991. Euboromys, a new name for the Eocene rodent Boromys Dashzeveg, 1990, not Boromys Miller, 1916. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 11(4): 527. doi:10.1080/02724634.1991.10011421. 
• Dashzeveg, D.; Novacek, M.J.; Norell, M.A. et al. 1995. Extraordinary preservation in a new vertebrate assemblage from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Nature, 374: 446–449. doi:10.1038/374446a0. 
• Dawson, M.R.; McKenna, M.C.; Beard, K.C.; Hutchison, J.H. 1993. An early Eocene plagiomenid mammal from Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg islands, Arctic Canada. Kaupia, 3(2): 179–192. 
• Dingus, L.; Tedford, R.; Gaffney, E.; et al. (1994). Mammals and their extinct relatives: a guide to the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing. New York: American Museum of Natural History.
• Domning, D.P.; Ray, C.E.; McKenna, M.C. 1991. A new specimen of Behemotops proteus (Mammalia: Desmostylia) from the Oligocene of Washington. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 11(3, suppl.): 26A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1991.10011425. 
• Gutmann, J.T.; Pushkar, P.D.; McKenna, M.C. (1990). "Late Cretaceous and Tertiary history and the dynamic crushing of cobbles, Black Butte area, southwestern Montana". In Johnson, A.M.; Burnham, C.W.; Allen, C.R.; et al. (eds.). Richard H. Jahns memorial volume. Amsterdam: Elsevier. pp. 413–431. (Reprint of Gutmann, Pushkar, and McKenna, 1989)
• Kellner, A.W.A.; McKenna, M.C. 1996. A leptictid mammal from the Hsanda Gol Formation (Oligocene), Central Mongolia, with comments on some Palaeoryctidae.. American Museum Novitates, 3168: 1–13. http://hdl.handle.net/2246/3626. 
• Lofgren, D.L.; McKenna, M.C.; Walsh, S.L. 1999. New records of Torrejonian–Tiffanian mammals from the Paleocene–Eocene Goler Formation, California. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 19(3, suppl.): 60A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1999.10011202. 
• Marincovich Jr., L.; Brouwers, E.M.; Hopkins, D.M.; McKenna, M.C. (1990). "Late Mesozoic and Cenozoic paleogeographic and paleoclimatic history of the Arctic Ocean Basin, based on shallow-water marine faunas and terrestrial vertebrates". In Grantz, A.; Johnson, L.; Sweeney, J.F. (eds.). The geology of North America, vol. L, The Arctic Ocean Region. Boulder, CO: Geological Society of America. pp. 403–426.
• McKenna, M.C. (1990). "Plagiomenids (Mammalia: ?Dermoptera) from the Oligocene of Oregon, Montana, and South Dakota, and middle Eocene of northwestern Wyoming". In Bown, T.M.; Rose, K.D. (eds.). Dawn of the age of mammals in the northern part of the Rocky Mountain interior, North America. Special Paper (Geological Society of America). Vol. 243. pp. 211–234. ISBN 978-0-8137-2243-6.
• McKenna, M.C. 1992. The alpha crystallin A chain of the eye lens and mammalian phylogeny. Annales Zoologici Fennici, 28: 349–360. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1993a. The horse tree. (Review of) B.J. MacFadden, Fossil horses: systematics, paleobiology, and evolution of the family Equidae. Science, 260: 1156–1157. doi:10.1126/science.260.5111.1156. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1993b. Response by Malcolm C. McKenna for the award of The Paleontological Society Medal, October 27, 1992. Journal of Paleontology, 67(4): 689–690. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1994. Early relatives of Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail. Natural History, 103(4): 56–58. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1995a. The mobile Indian raft: a reply to Rage and Jaeger. Systematic Biology, 44(2): 265–271. doi:10.1093/sysbio/44.2.265. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1995b. Biostratigraphy of the type Hsanda Gol Formation, Oligocene of Mongolia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 15(3, suppl.): 42A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1995.10011277. 
• McKenna, M.C. (1996a). "Holarctic landmass rearrangement, cosmic events, and Cenozoic terrestrial organisms". In Chang, M. (ed.). Collection of translated papers on vicariance. Beijing: Encyclopedia Press. pp. 136–173. (Chinese translation of McKenna, 1984a)
• McKenna, M.C. 1996b. The multituberculate alloclavicle is not homologous with the interclavicle of monotremes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16(3, suppl.): 52A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1996.10011371. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1997. Trunk lines. (Review of) J. Shoshani and P. Tassy (editors), The Proboscidea: evolution and palaeoecology of elephants and their relatives. Science, 276: 46–47. doi:10.1126/science.276.5309.46. 
• McKenna, M.C. 1998. Semi-isolation of the Arctic Ocean in the late Thanetian to earliest Ypresian time. Abstracts with Programs (Geological Society of America), 30(7): 118. 
• McKenna, M.C. & Bell, S.K. (eds.). 1997. Classification of mammals: above the species level. Columbia University Press: New York. xii + 631 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-11012-9. Google Books Reference page. 
• McKenna, M.C.; Bell, S.K. 1997a. Classification of mammals. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17(3, suppl.): 64A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1997.10011028. 
• McKenna, M.C.; Bell, S.K. (1997b). Classification of mammals above the species level. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11013-6. OCLC 37345734.
• McKenna, M.C.; Bleefeld, A.R.; Mellett, J.S. (1994). "Microvertebrate collecting: large-scale wet sieving for fossil microvertebrates in the field". In Leiggi, P.; May, P. (eds.). Vertebrate paleontological techniques. Vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 93–111. ISBN 978-0-521-45900-6.
• McKenna, M.C.; Haase, F. 1992. Marsholestes, a new name for the Eocene insectivoran Myolestes Matthew, 1909, not Myolestes Brethes, 1904. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 12(2)): 256. doi:10.1080/02724634.1992.10011455. 
• Meng, J.; McKenna, M.C. 1996. The Mongolian remodeling in the global frame—Paleogene faunal turnovers and biostratigraphy. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16(3, suppl.): 52A–53A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1996.10011371. 
• Meng, J.; McKenna, M.C. 1998a. Faunal turnovers of Palaeogene mammals from the Mongolian Plateau. Nature, 394: 364–367. doi:10.1038/28603. 
• Meng, J.; McKenna, M.C. 1998b. Paleocene–Eocene boundary and evolution of gliriform mammals of Mongolia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 18(3, suppl.): 63A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1998.10011116. 
• Meng, J.; Li, C.-k.; Dashzeveg, D.; McKenna, M.C. 1999. Basal gliriform mammals: morphology and phylogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 19(3, suppl.): 63A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1999.10011202. 
• Norell, M.A.; Clark, J.M.; Dashzeveg, D.; Barsbold, R.; Chiappe, L.M.; Davidson, A.R.; McKenna, M.C.; Perle, A. et al. 1994. A theropod dinosaur embryo and the affinities of the Flaming Cliffs dinosaur eggs. Science, 266: 779–782. doi:10.1126/science.266.5186.779. PMID 17730398. 
• Norell, M.A.; McKenna, M.C.; Novacek, M.J. 1992. Estesia mongoliensis, a new fossil varanoid from the Cretaceous Barun Goyot Formation of Mongolia. American Museum Novitates, 3045: 1–24. 
• Novacek, M.J.; Dashzeveg, D.; McKenna, M.C. 1994. Late Cretaceous mammals from Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 14(3, suppl.): 40A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1994.10011592. 
• Novacek, M.J.; McKenna, M.C. 1991. Evolving data sets and evolving mammals. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 11(3, suppl.): 48A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1991.10011425. 
• Novacek, M.J.; Norell, M.; McKenna, M.C.; Clark, J. 1994. Fossils of the Flaming Cliffs. Scientific American, 271(6): 60–63, 66–69. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican1294-60. 
• Novacek, Malcolm J.; Norell, Mark; McKenna, Malcolm C.; Clark, James December 1994. Fossils of the Flaming Cliffs. Scientific American, 271(6): 36–43. 
• Novacek, M.J.; Rougier, G.W.; Wible, J.R.; McKenna, M.C.; Dashzeveg, D.; Horovitz, I. 1997. Epipubic bones in eutherian mammals from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. Nature, 389: 483–486. doi:10.1038/39020. PMID 9333234. 
• Ray, C.E.; Domning, D.P.; McKenna, M.C. (1994). "A new specimen of Behemotops proteus (order Desmostylia) from the marine Oligocene of Washington". In Berta, A.; Demere, T.A. (eds.). Contributions in marine mammal paleontology honoring Frank C. Whitmore, Jr. Proceedings of the San Diego Society of Natural History. Vol. 29. pp. 205–222.
• Rougier, G.W.; Wible, J.R.; Novacek, M.J.; McKenna, M.C.; Dashzeveg, D. 1995. A mammalian petrosal from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia: mammaliamorph interrelationships from the ear region characters. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 15(3, suppl.): 50A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1995.10011277. 
• Sereno, P.C.; McKenna, M.C. 1990. The multituberculate clavicle and interclavicle and the early evolution of the mammalian pectoral girdle. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 10(3, suppl.): 42A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1990.10011841. 
• Sereno, P.C.; McKenna, M.C. 1995. Cretaceous multituberculate skeleton and the early evolution of the mammalian shoulder girdle. Nature, 377: 144–147. doi:10.1038/377144a0. 
• Sereno, P.C.; McKenna, M.C. 1996. Multituberculate phylogeny: reply. Nature, 379: 406–407. doi:10.1038/379406b0.  [to letter to Nature from G.W. Rougier, J.R. Wible and M.J. Novacek]
• Shoshani, J.; McKenna, M.C. 1991. Hemimastodon crepusculi: is it a proboscidean, an artiodactyl, or Ungulata incertae sedis?. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 11(3, suppl.): 55A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1991.10011425. 
• Shoshani, J.; McKenna, M.C. 1995. Mammalian evolution vis-a-vis Asian biogeography. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 15(3, suppl.): 53A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1995.10011277. 
• Shoshani, J.; McKenna, M.C. 1998. Higher taxonomic relationships among extant mammals based on morphology, with selected comparisons of results from molecular data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 9(3): 572–584. doi:10.1006/mpev.1998.0520. PMID 9668007. 
• Shoshani, J.; McKenna, M.C.; Bell, S.K. 1996. Morrillia, subgenus or genus?. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16(3, suppl.): 65A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1996.10011371. 
• Shoshani, J.; McKenna, M.C.; Rose, K.D.; Emry, R.J. 1997. Eurotamandua is a pholidotan not a xenarthran. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17(3, suppl.): 76A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1997.10011028. 
• Stucky, R.K.; McKenna, M.C. (1993). "Mammalia". In Benton, M.J. (ed.). The fossil record 2: 739–771. London: Chapman & Hall.
• Szalay, F.S.; Novacek, M.J.; McKenna, M.C., eds. (1993a). Mammal phylogeny: Mesozoic differentiation, multituberculates, monotremes, early therians, and marsupials. New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0387978542. OCLC 715426640.
• Szalay, F.S.; Novacek, M.J.; McKenna, M.C., eds. (1993b). Mammal phylogeny: Placentals. Vol. 2. New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-97853-4. OCLC 715426850.
• Thewissen, J.G.M.; McKenna, M.C. 1992. Paleobiogeography of Indo-Pakistan: a response to Briggs, Patterson, and Owen. Systematic Biology, 41(2): 248–251. doi:10.1093/sysbio/41.2.248. 
• Wang, X.; McKenna, M.C. 1999. New materials of Amphicticeps (Carnivora, Musteloidea) from Mongolia, and basal arctoid relationships. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 19(3, suppl.): 83A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1999.10011202. 
• Wible, J.R.; Rougier, G.W.; McKenna, M.C. 1998. New data on skull structure in the Mongolian Late Cretaceous eutherian mammal Zalambdalestes. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 18(3, suppl.): 86A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1998.10011116. 
• Wible, J.R.; Rougier, G.W.; McKenna, M.C.; Novacek, M.J. 1997. Earliest eutherian ear region: a petrosal of ?Prokennalestes from the Early Cretaceous of Khoobur, Mongolia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17(3, suppl.): 84A. doi:10.1080/02724634.1997.10011028. 
• Wible, J.R.; Rougier, G.W.; Novacek, M.J.; McKenna, M.C.; Dashzeveg, D. 1995. A mammalian petrosal from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia: implications for the evolution of the ear region and mammaliamorph interrelationships. American Museum Novitates, 3149: 1–19. 
• Wyss, A.R.; Flynn, J.J.; Norell, M.A.; Swisher III, C.C.; Charrier, R.; Novacek, M.J.; McKenna, M.C. 1993. South America’s earliest rodent and recognition of a new interval of mammalian evolution. Nature, 365: 434–437. doi:10.1038/365434a0. 
• Wyss, A.R.; Flynn, J.J.; Norell, M.A.; Swisher III, C.C.; Novacek, M.J.; McKenna, M.C.; Charrier, R. 1994. Paleogene mammals from the Andes of central Chile: a preliminary taxonomic, biostratigraphic, and geochronologic assessment. American Museum Novitates, 3098: 1–31. 
• Wyss, A.R.; Norell, M.A.; Flynn, v; Novacek, M.J.; Charrier, R.; McKenna, M.C.; Swisher III, C.C.; Frassinetti, D. et al. 1990. A new early Tertiary mammal fauna from central Chile: implications for Andean stratigraphy and tectonics. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 10(4): 518–522. doi:10.1080/02724634.1990.10011835. 

2000s

• Asher, R.J.; McKenna, M.C.; Emry, R.J.; Tabrum, A.R.; Kron, D.G. 2002. Morphology and relationships of Apternodus and other extinct, zalambdodont, placental mammals. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 273: 1–117. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2002)273<0001:maroaa>2.0.co;2. 
• Eberle, J.J.; McKenna, M.C. 2002. Early Eocene Leptictida, Pantolesta, Creodonta, Carnivora, and Mesonychidae (Mammalia) from the Eureka Sound Group, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 39(6): 899–910. doi:10.1139/e02-001. 
• Flynn, J.J.; Novacek, M.J.; Dodson, H.E. et al. 2002. A new fossil mammal assemblage from the southern Chilean Andes: implications for geology, geochronology, and tectonics. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 15(3): 285–302. doi:10.1016/S0895-9811(02)00043-3. 
• Lofgren, D.L.; McKenna, M.C. (2002). "The Goler Formation of California". In Reynolds, R.E. (ed.). Between the basins: exploring the western Mojave and southern Basin and Range Province (PDF). Riverside: Desert Studies Consortium, California State University. pp. 66–68.
• Lofgren, D.L.; McKenna, M.C.; Hutchison, H.; Nydam, R.; Honey, J. 2002. New records of Paleocene vertebrates from the Goler Formation of California. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22(3, suppl.): 80A. 
• Lofgren, D.; McKenna, M.C.; Walsh, S. 2002. Vertebrate paleontology of the Goler Formation, El Paso Mountains, California. Field Guide for WAVP 2002 (Claremont, CA: Raymond Alf Museum of Paleontology): 15. 
• McCarthy, James J.; McKenna, Malcolm C. 2000. How Earth’s ice is changing. Environment, 42(10): 8–18. doi:10.1080/00139150009605770. 
• McKenna, M.C. 2000. Unwilling workers aid in fossil finds. The Fossil Times, Spring 2000: 1, 3. 
• McKenna, M.C. August 5, 2001. Sentimental journeys. (Review of) S. Winchester, The map that changed the world: William Smith and the birth of modern geology. New York Times Book Review: 14. 
• McKenna, M.C. 2002. [Remarks on receiving] Romer-Simpson Medal. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology News Bulletin, 182: 41–43. 
• McKenna, M.C. (2003). "Collecting small vertebrates in the terrestrial Cretaceous of Wyoming and Mongolia". In Brown, D.E. (ed.). The Mesozoic in Wyoming. Casper, Wyoming: Tate 2002, Tate Geological Museum, Casper College. pp. 70–75.
• McKenna, M.C.; Asher, R.; Emry, R.; Tabrum, A.; Kron, D. 2002. The search for extinct relatives of modern mammals: the case of soricids and Apternodus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22(3, suppl.): 86A. 
• McKenna, M.C.; Chow, M. 2001. New phenacodont-like mammal, late Paleocene of China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 21(3, suppl.): 79A–80A. doi:10.1080/02724634.2001.10010852. 
• McKenna, M.C.; Kielan-Jaworowska, Z.; Meng, J. 2000. Earliest eutherian mammal skull, from the Late Cretaceous (Coniacian) of Uzbekistan. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 54(1): 1–54. 
• McKenna, M.C.; Lofgren, D.L. (2003). "Mimotricentes tedfordi, a new arctocyonid from the late Paleocene of California". In Flynn, L.J. (ed.). Vertebrate fossils and their context: contributions in honor of Richard H. Tedford. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. Vol. 279. pp. 632–643.
• McKenna, M.C.; Meng, J. 2001. A primitive relative of rodents from the Chinese Paleocene. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 21(3): 565–572. doi:10.1671/0272-4634(2001)021[0565:aprorf]2.0.co;2. 
• Novacek, M.J.; Rougier, G.W.; Dashzeveg, D.; McKenna, M.C. 2000. New eutherian mammal from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia and its bearing on the origins of the modern placental radiation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 20(3, suppl.): 61A. doi:10.1080/02724634.2000.10010765. 
• Rougier, G.W.; Novacek, M.J.; McKenna, M.C.; Wible, J.R. 2001. Gobiconodonts from the Early Cretaceous of Oshih (Ashile), Mongolia. American Museum Novitates, 3348: 1–30. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2001)348<0001:GFTECO>2.0.CO;2. 
• Ting, S.; Bowen, G.; Koch, P.; Clyde, W.; Wang, Y.; McKenna, M. 2002. First temporally constrained Asian Paleocene/Eocene boundary record. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22(3, suppl.): 114A. 
• Ting, S.; Bowen, G.J.; Koch, P.L.; Clyde, W.C.; Wang, Y.; Wang, Y.; McKenna, M.C. (2003). "Biostratigraphic, chemostratigraphic, and magnetostratigraphic study across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in the Hengyang Basin, Hunan, China". In Wing, S.L.; Gingerich, P.D.; Schmitz, B.; et al. (eds.). Causes and consequences of globally warm climates in the early Paleogene (PDF). Special Paper (Geological Society of America). Vol. 369. pp. 521–535. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2017-11-18. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (help)
• Ting, S.; Meng, J.; McKenna, M.C.; Li, C. 2002. The osteology of Matutinia (Simplicidentata, Mammalia) and its relationship to Rhombomylus. American Museum Novitates, 3371: 1–33. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2002)371<0001:toomsm>2.0.co;2. 
• Wible, J.R.; Rougier, G.W.; Novacek, M.J.; McKenna, M.C. 2001. Earliest eutherian ear region: a petrosal referred to Prokennalestes from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia. American Museum Novitates, 3322: 1–44. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2001)322<0001:eeerap>2.0.co;2. 
• Wood, C.B.; McKenna, M.C.; Bosko, D. 2000. An old specimen of a new undescribed late Paleocene Apternodus-like insectivore. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 20(3, suppl.): 80A. doi:10.1080/02724634.2000.10010765. 
• Bell, Susan K. 2004. Chapter 1: Malcolm C. McKenna: A Biography and Bibliography. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 285: 11–24. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2004)285<0011:C>2.0.CO;2. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/453//v2/dspace/ingest/pdfSource/bul/B285a01.pdf?sequence=18&isAllowed=y. 

2010s

• Lofgren, Donald L.; McKenna, Malcolm C.; Honey, James G. et al. 2014. New records of eutherian mammals from the Goler Formation (Tiffanian, Paleocene) of California and their biostratigraphic and paleobiogeographic implications. American Museum Novitates, 3797. http://hdl.handle.net/2246/6470.